RoyalDude wrote:Hate to pick on the kid but Kassian is a nothing but a 4th line player right now. He always seems be behind the play instead of ahead of it.

You can see the raw skill out there though. Nothing in close to the net yet but he's looking to do stuff the coaches would never let Dale Weise try (because he couldn't even dream of pulling it off in the NHL).

He's got to pick his spots better, both in terms of physical play and trying to pull off individual maneuvers, but you can see the capability is there.

The Sedins need to manufacture something here. Their game has been somewhere between "meh" and poor.

The team is really fighting the puck. They are lacking urgency. Chip it out as far as the red line, retreat and try to break out again. That's pretty much been the first and third periods. If we only play one period per game we'll be done real quick.

Canucks are playing to keep it close, or something. Hard to explain the lack of urgency. Game's probably over. Looking like the LA series where the effort is ok, but the Sedins aren't playing off of instinct, and everybody else is thinking too much. Too worried about losing, maybe. Not playing to take the game by the balls and make it their bitch. That, to me, is bad coaching and broken leadership.